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I just saw your webinar on investing, thanks for the info. I studied finance as an undergraduate, have a lot of banking experience and because I was laid off last March by Bank of America I have returned to school to do an MBA with a finance emphasis. I've also had a lot of time to read books that I've been wanting to read for a while. This includes 2 books on Warren Buffet, Snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life and The Making of An American Capitalist. I've always read Phil Fisher, John Bogle, and of course, Security Analysis, The Intelligent Investor, and Seth Klarman's Margin of Safety. Clearly, I am willing to do as much homework, research, and due diligence as necessary to make sound, rational investments. Here is my question. What is a good starting point for researching companies? Yahoo Finance? NYSE.com? Can you advise me as to how to get access to things like S&P, Fitch, Moodys in order to start looking at financials?

Those are some excellent books! I like to use the S&P reports when looking at financials. Check with your online trading brokerage, most of them will provide free access to reports like the S&P Reports. TD Waterhouse for example provides free access to S&P Reports for their customers.

The other reports I like to use are Value Line, check their website to get free access to the Dow 30 companies.

Besides S&P Reports and Value Line, you can find basic financial information from a number of websites like Yahoo Finance (which I like to use). I also like to use Globe Investor (from the Globe and Mail newspaper).